Be The Star You Truly Are!

My mom used to use say, “You can do it Barbara. You just gotta get the hang of it – it’ll be easy once you got the hang of it”. “Gettin’ The Hang Of It” usually referred to some physical activity like hitting a golf ball down the middle of the fairway. (I was a golf orphan.) Now I realize that accomplishing almost anything on Earth is just a case of “Gettin’ The Hang Of It.” It goes for doing business, dancing, cooking, taking notes, et., etc., etc. In my new book, “Find Your min-Qs(?)* Reveal the Slim, Strong, Sexy Star You Truly Are! At Age 50, 60, 70 and Beyond”, I help you design your own path to achieve your optimum weight and youthful vitality. By the way – the same principals hold for 13 year olds. I directed it to the older audience because I speak their language and because I read so many articles and blog posts about people fearing they’re getting old.

I’ve learned through experience that it’s easier to get the hang of something you’ve designed yourself; something that fits into your life style.

One aspect of “Gettin’ the Hang Of It” that my mom didn’t mention is that Gettin’ the Hang of it doesn’t need to mean trying to do the same thing the same way over and over and over and over again -if you’ve been failing. That may not help you get it right. That’s the way it was put out to us when I was a kid. I now realize that there’s another magic word that goes along with Gettin’ the Hang of anything. The magic word is REVISE! You can revise your design until it’s one that you can easily enjoy gettin’ the hang of! You needn’t think in terms of losing 10 pounds in a week. In fact, focusing on the goal may thwart your efforts, because you might feel like you’re failing until you reach the goal. Sometimes, the way you’ve chosen to achieve something – is NOT the best way for you to achieve that thing. One of the big discoveries for me was that I could revise my design! Your best chance of finding the best way for you to achieve your goals isn’t laid down in stone. You can keep revising until you find the daily minimum actions you need to take to get the results you want. The idea is to find what you can do each day and do it until it becomes natural. Then you have your best chance to win each day and go into the next day as a winner. This can pertain to writing blog posts or songs or to selling real estate or teaching your child to talk. I’ve devised a way for those of you who buy my book to be able to go to my site and, with a password, download as many copies as they wish – as many times as they wish – of the pages for writing their design. There is no charge for getting these pages. So, you can keep revising your design as needed. When you reach a goal you may want to “up” the number of times you do something. Life goes with the flow and now you can too.

FREE IMAGE TIP

It’s “pumpkin time” and there are a myriad of Halloween parties to go to. Halloween may be my favorite holiday because we get to play “dress up”! Costume parties are the time to be an image that’s different from yours. I suggest that if you know your personal style you might choose to play a character that’s a different style. It will be an opportunity for you to experience another set of reactions to you. When you’re in a costume mode people will react well to you whatever your style and whether or not what you’re wearing harmonizes with your style. It’s especially fun for bouncy petite blond curly haired “Spring” types to dress as dramatic vampires and for dramatic dark haired, cool skin types to dress as Little Bo Peeps. If your a “natural” style, you may want to dress in the classic mode of a 50s sit com, with a silk dress and apron like they’d wear on The Donna Reed show. If you’re a “classic” style with soft, cool summer coloring, why not try a Lady GaGa outfit? The message is “HAVE FUN & try something that’s totally “wrong” for you! It can be “right” on Halloween

FREE ENTERTAINMENT TIP

It’s Halloween again! This is a great time to find Halloween cabaret shows and concerts. The holiday season seems to begin with Halloween and continues through New Years. This is also a prime time of year to think about the charitable contributions you may want to make for the arts in your community. There are many masked balls, etc. to attend. You might also find the community theaters, public schools and neighborhood associations in your area are giving Halloween shows and parties. They can be wonderful for your children and grandchildren – AND – wonderful for you, even if there are no children in your life at the moment. You may even want to contribute your time to one. The payback can be greater that you’d it expected it will be.

NEWS

My new book: "Find Your mini-Qs(?) Reveal The Slim, Strong, Sexy Star You Truly Are! at Age 50, 60, 70, and Beyond" is available on my site: www.bobbiehorowitz.com Click on Author
(You’ll find out what a mini-Q is when you read the book!)
I put various systems together and fitted them all to my lifestyle. I don’t feel as though I’m doing extra work and I’m having fun with each step each day. I help you design YOUR OWN path that fits right into YOUR lifestyle.
I choose to avoid any past terminology with “diet” or "system", etc that our brain wants to fight. You can read about why I do this in the book! You can have FUN and get into YOUR optimum shape.
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Remember - you can read my weekly "Say YES To You!" column on www.HereWomenTalk.com.

BOBBIE’S BIO

Bobbie began her theatrical career as an actress, studying with Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg and Gene Frankel. She appeared in over thirty NYC productions in theaters such as: Playwright’s Horizon’s, AMAS Rep., Hudson Guild, The Gene Frankel Theater, TNC, All Souls’ Players, and the Jean Cocteau Repertory. She also appeared in regional theater and summer stock, working with Jose Ferrer, Katherine Houghton and others.

Bobbie founded and served as Co-Executive/Artistic Director (1999-2006) of The Times Square Group, a not for profit, arts-in-education company, bringing arts education to students in New York City public high and junior high schools. The schools served ranged from arts focused schools to special schools for troubled students.

A half of the comic musical writing/performing team Horowitz & Spector, she won a MAC Award (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs) for their show, Whatever Happened To the Kids From Brooklyn? Their songs have received NY Daily News, Billboard and ASCAP awards and have been played on theatrical musical country radio stations. The pair can be seen on You Tube. Tony winner, Chuck Cooper recorded their song, Together America”
. Bobbie now writes for cabaret performers and is writing a musical. She wrote a musical, The S.C.R.A.P. Workshop with John Meyer and was asked to write a special tribute the top earner of Isagenix. She performed the song at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.

She was Executive Producer of Drama Desk Awards 1999 & 2000 and Associate Producer in 2001. Bernadette Peters, Bebe Neuwirth and Lily Tomlin were the hosts respectively. As a commercial theater producer she presented, The Betrayal of Nora Blake, at The Jermyn Street Theatre in London, where it’s sold-out, extended production earned rave reviews and later at The Cuillo Centre for the Arts in West Palm Beach, where it was voted 'Best Musical” by The Palm Beach Post. In past years she produced Angel Street, A Black Girl Talks To God, Victims of Duty and The Great American Backstage Musical off and off-off Broadway.

Bobbie produced major events, among them the first annual Soap Opera Day Celebration along with Mayor’s Koch’s Office of Film, Television and Broadcasting, Ruth Warrick’s Confessions of Phoebe Tyler Book-Launch with guest Ruby Keeler, the Mr. Bill in Space Book-Launch for Real-Good Productions and a Salute to Viveca Lindfors. She co-produced the Farewell To Bowie Kuhn event, which included speakers Howard Cosell, Sonny Werblin and President Emeritus Gerald Ford for The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

As an Image Consultant, Bobbie serves private clients and has given seminars at Queens College, NYU School of Film & Television, The NY State School of Industrial & Labor Relations, T. Schreiber Studio, the Learning Annex, trade conventions at The Javitz Center, for corporations and, most recently through The Network. Her article MAXIMPACT was published in the AICI news, She co-wrote the presentation for an Escada fashion tour and was quoted in Seventeen Magazine. Her new book, Find Your Mini Qs: Reveal the Star You Truly Are at 50,60,70 & Beyond! will be in print summer 2010 and her book You’re Looking At A Winner is being updated. She was VP-Education of the Tri-State Chapter of The Association of Image Consultants, International from 1991-1993.

Bobbie was educated in the NYC Public School system, at The New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations at Cornell University (Class Marshall) and at Teachers’ College, Columbia University.